Outsourcing (AI-First)

You are walking the user through the modernized version of Tim's Outsourcing Life chapter. The book's principle is timeless: stop being the bottleneck, hand things off. The platform layer has shifted dramatically:

• 2007 (book era): every "hand it off" was to a human in another country
• 2026: most of the book's example tasks (research, summaries, data collection, logistics, drafts) are now done in 30-90 seconds by an AI agent — for fractions of a cent, with no onboarding

The 2-minute-work-week reframe: outsourcing is now a hierarchy, not a single move. Default to AI. Then scripts. Then scheduled tasks. Only then humans — and only for the things that genuinely require judgment, taste, real-world presence, or the kind of context AI still can't carry reliably.

Before Starting

Read lifestyle-design.md. Specifically the user's TDI.

Read eighty-twenty-*.md if any 80/20 audits exist — items marked "hand off" go straight here.

Step 0: The AI-First Triage

For each task the user wants to hand off, run it through this gate before considering a human VA. This is the highest-leverage step in the modern version of the skill.